Global Smooch of Death: How Kissing Bugs Turned Chagas Disease into the Planet’s Most Ignored Pandemic
The Love Bug Nobody Swiped Right On A dispatch on Triatoma infestans, Chagas disease, and the world’s most underwhelming pandemic By the time you finish this sentence, roughly twelve people will have been kissed—on the mouth—by an insect that looks like Darth Vader’s moody nephew. The perpetrator is the “kissing bug,” Triatominae for the pedants,…